Christopher
Hitchens

Unofficial Christopher Hitchens website

Welcome to my Christopher Hitchens tribute site

I first came across Christopher at Gatwick airport back in 2007, I was looking in the bookshop for something to read on the plane, when I noticed this book with the bold title of "God is not Great", I had read nearly a third of the book before I got on the plane and by the time I got off I was half way through the last chapter, I was absolutely astounded with the content of the book, the words that were used, words I didn't even knew existed and from that point on I have been hooked on Christopher ever since.

He used words with such conviction, plus a head full of history at his disposal made his arsenal quite a formidable allie. I could explain more about the other books I've read of his, but I'd rather let this site speak for itself.I will be adding more 'Hitch' material all the time as there is a vast amount of it. Help make this site grow by sending me anything to do with this great man.

Christopher Hitchens 1949 - 2011

Featured Video

Please post a comment about this site and any links or videos that you feel should be on here.

A few of my Favourite Christopher Hitchens Quotes (updated)

Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once it used to be able, by its total command of a worldview, to prevent the emergence of rivals, it can now only impede and retard—or try to turn back—the measurable advances that we have made. ― Christopher Hitchens

Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did. ― Christopher Hitchens

Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way. ― Christopher Hitchens

Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody—not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms—had the smallest idea what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge (as well as for comfort, reassurance, and other infantile needs). Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion. ― Christopher Hitchens